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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-14844

A flaw was found in, Fedora versions of krb5 from 1.16.1 to, including 1.17.x, in the way a Kerberos client could crash the KDC by sending one of the RFC 4556 "enctypes". A remote unauthenticated user could use this flaw to crash the KDC.

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1 Nov 2026, 08:36 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-14844

core-osv · Original source

Published 26 Sept 2019, 12:15 UTC

A flaw was found in, Fedora versions of krb5 from 1.16.1 to, including 1.17.x, in the way a Kerberos client could crash the KDC by sending one of the RFC 4556 "enctypes". A remote unauthenticated user could use this flaw to crash the KDC.

osv:CVE-2019-14844
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-14844",
  "method": "structured",
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:47:41.836596937Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/54ZYKEJZ77BXZWGF4NEVKC33ESVROEYC/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N4LS5PIJOCNOUZGLO2OBT6GY334PUOSW/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TDE2QOKK4I4TV4WV74ZQWICZ4HJN2MOK/",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220325-0003/",
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 441467,
  "published_at": "2019-09-26T12:15:11.457+00:00"
}